Tuesday, 17 January 2023
The setting of the book is Cyprus (and London)…so our hostess chose a Greek theme, which overlaps the many cuisines of neighboring regions that make similar goodies. The name you use indicates your allegiance to which area. Language tells your ethnicity, essentially. On modern Cyprus, it’s either Turkish or Greek.
Monday, 16 January 2023
Dramatic sculpture. Simple concept. Well executed. A curved steel sheet with a cutout-outline, bent at a slightly different angle. Harder to describe than to contemplate.
Sculptor: Xavier Medina Campeny (b. 1943). Title: Homenaje a Martin Luther King. The sculptor is Spanish, from Barcelona. The piece was a gift from the 1992 Summer Olympics host city (yes, Barcelona) to Atlanta, the host of the next Summer Olympics, in 1996. [If Wikipeeee is correct.]
Sunday, 15 January 2023
The moon’s been bright on recent clear nights, but I’ve been sleep-stumbling too much to try for a photo. Here’s a flower from last year’s lovely 15 Jan.
Saturday, 14 January 2023
Wood grain, as a concept, sounds simple. However, if you have different kinds of wood and different treatments thereof, you realize it’s visually complicated. Functionally, too; but it’s a different thing to assess that. Here, the shadows from Venetian blinds complicate the wood grain visuals. Plus some random scratches.
Friday, 13 January 2023
Our azaleas sport brown, curled leaves after the seventy-ish hours below freezing we had recently. I thought a picture would be too depressing, so here’s a pansy from exactly one year ago. BTW, today’s high was 26° below yesterday’s high of 70°.
Thursday, 12 January 2023
A fast-moving, serious storm came through in the afternoon. We got wind and rain, but not for long. Whew. Far worse, horrible actually, southwest of us in Alabama, and along Atlanta’s southern suburbs. At the moment in this capture, we were through the worst of it (whew!).
Wednesday, 11 January 2023
I encountered this machine today, fortunately in a display case not my ophthalmologist’s office. I was so enthralled by its elegant form that I didn’t even look for a label to determine what it was designed to do.
Tuesday, 10 January 2023
Feeling genuine? I hope so.
Feeling safe? Hope so, but it’s tough if you’re near the Cali coast.
Monday, 9 January 2023
I managed to forget that this honeysuckle shrub-bush can bloom this time of the year. As it is this year. My worry: are there bees around? High in the 50s today, 60s the next three days (perhaps soon for the bees), then the 40s (or possibly not).
Sunday, 8 January 2023
This dawn light lasted less than a minute at maximum color. And I was there. Ephemeral.